Subpar with the accusation that China has been the source of cyber espionage. Fabricate claims and fabricate accusation are actually two sides of one coin.

1:52 am June 19, 2013

true wrote:

This is a stupid article. China's fertility rate since more than 2 decades ago has been between 1.3 to 1.6, therefore for the upcoming labor force to be well absorbed, China's growth doesn't even need to go above 3% to maintain a healthy employment picture. Perhaps the writer of this article is smart but he thinks that the readers are stupid.

11:00 am June 19, 2013

People who believe China statement of unemployment live in a SCI-FI world wrote:

If you believe that the unemployment rate is 4.1% then I want to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.
This is absurd. Just think that the GDP went fromm 11% to 7.5% WITH NO EFFECT YOU MUST BE DREAMING
So with the so called loss of jobs in the solar industry reported to be 400,00, thanks to the duties that Europe is imposing, this has no effect on unemployment?
The Big Chinese Lie!

11:03 am June 19, 2013

Data from China is not always trust worthy wrote:

Is the Data from China trust worthy?

11:56 am June 19, 2013

true wrote:

I believe the China haters are saying what's reflective of their own country. It's always like that with these colonialists. They accuse everybody of hacking when in fact they are the worst criminal hacker of the world.

12:01 pm June 19, 2013

gold wrote:

US is the world's greatest liar and it falsifies everything. Iraq's WMD and Operation Prism are enough to make us not to believe anything coming out from the US.

12:32 pm June 19, 2013

bird wrote:

The author and some of the posters here are really ignorant. Wonder why they are so shameless to show their ignorance so blatantly.

The Chinese wages have increased by the most in the world for the last 10 years and we have been hearing CEO's from the multinationals complaining about the tight labor market condition in China. If the Chinese is wrong in giving the unemployment rate, then their mistake would be on the side of overstating the unemployment rate. By comparative study with the other countries through the acceleration of wages, my best guess is China's unemployment rate would be less than 3%.

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